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Posted on November 2, 2018 · On Friday's Houston Matters: Early voting ends today and has already surpassed all of 2014 in Harris County. Then, we discuss how nurses are perceived in culture. Plus, our non-experts break down the week's news. And Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 discusses the art of mocking bad movies.

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Posted on May 12, 2017 · (Above: Actress Felicia Day. Image Courtesy: FeliciaDay.com) Felicia Day is a noted actress, writer, and all-around major figure in the so-called “geek” community. Some of her earliest appearances were in her own web series The Guild and Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog. More recently, she’s appeared in Supernatural, Eureka, and now the revival of Mystery Science […]

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Posted on May 12, 2017 · (Above: L-R Frank Conniff as TV’s Frank and Trace Beaulieu as Dr. Clayton Forrester in the early days of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”) The revival of the cult TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 debuted on Netflix last month (April 14, 2017). The show’s premise is all an excuse just to hear a guy — no […]

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Posted on May 12, 2017 · What happens when a machine begins to read its own instruction manual? No, Iâm not talking aboutÂ SkynetÂ (from theÂ TerminatorÂ films)Â but rather humanityâs rapidly increasing understanding of its genome â the code that makes us who were are.Â Weâve mapped it and identified genes that lead to certain disorders. So could we someday just turn some of those genes […]